The coaching staff were allowed to stop and re-start each drill session as many times as necessary and for as long as they deemed necessary to make a coaching point. No time outs were allowed during the offensive and defensive drills, while 30-second time-outs were adopted during scrimmage-type drills. Moreover, the coaching staff composed balanced teams based on players' skills and court positions and provided consistent verbal encouragement for all the 5 vs 5 drills to ensure the maintenance of consistently high work intensity,